Jeffrey B. Andrews
Partner
Jeff Andrews is a commercial transactions lawyer. He advises businesses in preparing, reviewing and negotiating contracts for buying and selling goods and services. His legal practice spans virtually all industries.
He has done substantial work with clients in:
- Agriculture
- Commercial airlines
- Communications
- Energy and energy services
- Financial services
- Life science
- Health care
- Manufacturing
- Utilities
Jeff is especially known for preparing, reviewing and negotiating contracts for procuring technology goods and services. He is recognized in Texas, nationally and globally as one of the leading technology transaction attorneys. Jeff has acted on hundreds of technology transactions. He has dealt with every major domestic and international technology provider over many years, and understands their approaches to dealmaking and execution.
He has extensive experience in providing legal advice on the full spectrum of technology offerings, including the following: all types of cloud offerings, data center contracts for colocation and hosting services, license agreements for software, ERP systems and AI tools, system implementation and integration contracts, contracts for telecommunications and network services, contracts for development, consulting and other IT professional services, and managed services contracts for information technology and business process outsourcings.
Jeff also helps clients develop and put in place data privacy policies and practices that protect their information while following laws in the United States and globally.
Legal commentators describe Jeff as one of the best technology attorneys in the field. He has been praised as a top-drawer lawyer who gives very practical advice to clients, and has a very good grasp of the legal and market range for contract terms and conditions. Clients express high levels of confidence in Jeff’s abilities, saying that he has an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject area, which affords him the ability to translate complex requirements into a good contractual structure, and that he is a solutions-oriented negotiator who can find common ground on which parties can reach agreement.
Experience
- Structured and negotiated a development agreement with a clean energy company for the development of a large-scale green hydrogen production facility for an energy infrastructure company.
- Structured and negotiated a SaaS transaction for an AI system to identify patients for clinical trials for the operator of the largest medical center in the world.
- Structured and negotiated a SaaS transaction for a trajectory management and flight planning system that, in essence, runs the airline, for a U.S. airline carrier.
- Structuring and negotiated a system installation and integration agreement, as well as an outsourcing transaction for payroll services on behalf of a major provider of operations and maintenance services for water and wastewater utilities.
- Negotiated a nanotechnology licensing agreement with a leading university on behalf of a sustainable energy solutions provider.
- Structured and negotiated an outsourcing transaction for IT services, including infrastructure services for a leading hospitality and restaurant company.
- Structured and negotiated an outsourcing transaction for CRM installation, implementation, and integration services valued at millions of dollars for a retail electric provider.
- Led and closed multiple software licensing transactions with separate providers for both SaaS and on-premise software for a pipeline services company.
- Renegotiated and renewed existing outsourcing agreements for IT and F&A services with separate providers for a major electric utility.
- Structured and negotiated outsourcing transactions for IT services, including application development and maintenance functions for a leading domestic airline.